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And the regular Army does the training indigs mission as well, albeit somewhat differently. The training program for the Afghan National Army, for example, is led primarily by US Army National Guard infantry brigades, assisted by British, French, Romanian and other allied forces.
And it couldn't be just SF's mission anyway. If every ODA in every company in every battalion in all 7 active and NG SFG(A)s were at full strength and sent to Iraq, and everyone was pulled from the schoolhouse, you still wouldn't have enough trainers for what the training missions for the Iraqi Army and other security forces need.
Roggio mentions beefing up embedded MTTs to 9,000. Add in non-embedded trainers - at Iraqi training centers, for example - and the number just of hands-on folk that is really needed is well more than that 9,000 number.
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